Hi Peter, Do you mean the grep-command I set should be runnable in shell? I just use grep-command to store the grep template, so it cannot be run in shell. Why we need probe-grep? To test whether grep exists and whether its function works correctly? Can I skip it? Thanks On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 06.09.2010 um 13:32 schrieb Shenli Zhu: > > > (2) change grep-command "grep -i -nH -e \"re\" -r \"/home/username/\" >> --include=\"*.*\"" to what I want. >> > > > Does this work from the command line? (I'd use ' instead of \" to prevent > the shell from expanding the meta-characters ``*´´ or ``.´´, which could > cause the failure you observe.) > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time. > – Bill Gates, Jan 2004 > >